The Silence of Matter - Couverture souple

De S. Lopes, Fabio

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798255685455

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

After rebuilding his life in southern Ontario, Brazilian physicist Charles Alves joins a Canadian dark-matter project buried deep beneath the earth. What begins as a return to science soon becomes something far more dangerous.

The detector was built to measure rare events in matter. Instead, Charles begins to suspect that under certain conditions it does something else: it alters which recent histories remain materially real.

At first, the changes arrive quietly. A school placement improves. A diagnosis softens. A loss fails to occur. Each correction appears in plausible clothes, carried by ordinary systems and ordinary voices. But the benefits come at a cost—memory drift, bodily strain, and fractures in the shared record of family life.

As the discovery draws institutional scrutiny and strategic interest, Charles finds himself trapped between scientific ambition, state attention, and the moral catastrophe of using an instrument that can no longer be called neutral.

Set between Welland, Toronto, and the buried architecture of a Canadian research mine, The Silence of Matter is a literary hard sci-fi novel about dark matter, memory, migration, and the price of deciding what remains real.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798255685455
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
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